Understanding the INFINITIVE

Preparing for Week 5

Understanding the INFINITIVE

Preparing for Week 5

We will learn how to talk about what we like to do this week.

To prepare your mind for this weeks lesson and how the grammar works, I want to describe the concept of an infinitive verb. A verb that is in the infinitive form is a verb that has not been altered to go with "He" or "We" or "You" for example. What does that look like?

What is wrong with the following sentences?

I to run tomorrow.

We to run this weekend.

He to run today.

When you learn that "correr" means "to run", then you have learned the verb "correr" but it is in its infinitive form.

In order for "to run" to be used with "I" , it becomes "run", "I run tomorrow at noon".

In order for "to run" to be used with "He", it becomes "runs". "He runs today."

In Spanish, we call this change in the verb, conjugation. Each infinitive has a pattern of rules we use to "conjugate" it, meaning to use the correct form for whatever the "subject pronoun" is. And we´ll learn about subject pronouns, but they are in English, I, you, he, she, we, they, etc.